Rags to Riches confirmed for Belmont

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Originally Posted by slotdirt

Question: how does one just decide - seemingly at random - to send a horse to a grueling, 12f test? I'm not talking about Digger here, but C P West and a couple of others. I would suspect it's much more advisable to point a horse towards a race like this weeks in advance.

This wasn't a random decision nor was Rags. It is all politics. If you say you are pointing to the race and then don't wind up running for whatever reason everyone is going to assume you had a setback. If you wait to make an announcement then you can have a minor setback and skip the race without it raising any red flags.